First Officer – Personal Log Stardate: 210611.06

Vulcans, or so it is commonly thought, have but one failing. Curiosity. In truth, I do not consider this “trait” to be a failing rather it is the only reason for existence.

My off duty time is divided between meditation and reading. According to the Captain, I “would read the print on a bottle label”. He tells me this is a ‘joke’. The Human predilection to the ‘joke’ still leaves me somewhat bemused. Why would I not read the label on bottles? They provide important nutritional information. Although in most cases, having read all the small print off bottle labels – ‘nutritional’ is not a descriptor that could be applied in any sense of value of the word to the contents of the bottle.

Interestingly, I have come across an excellent paper in the ships computer archives, which may lead to a greater understanding of the Captains mindset.

“The truth, however, is that with the countless number of stars in the universe, and the likely percentage of those with habitable planets, and the percentage of those with sentient life that has evolved to the point that we can relate to them in some way, we have enough “raw data” and enough differences to explore that we can, in fact, create an entire science of the study of sentient alien species.”

I find it curious that Humans consider us ‘alien’.

The paper, “Xenoarchaeology – Making Sense of the Science of Sentient Species” raises some intriguing points and indeed the studies of the xenoarchaeologist / xenoanthropologist lies in making connections and asks such questions as: